Welcome to the CRES Amateur Radio Club Online

The CRES amateur radio club was established in 1962 by hams working at the
Western Electric manufacturing facility on East Broad St in Columbus. Today it
serves the greater central Ohio ham community. Its goals include stimulating
interest in amateur radio, the exchange of technical information, emergency
readiness, and social activities for the membership and their families.
As a club we sponsor the W8ZPF repeater, host a Volunteer Examiner team,
participate in ham-related events such as Field Day, and conduct bi-monthly
meetings which consist of a short business meeting followed by a topical
presentation of interest to clubmembers. Visitors (licensed or not) are
always welcome, as are new club members.

Upcoming Club activities and events of interest to clubmembers:

Every Sunday, 9 PM - Club roundtable on W8ZPF/R, 146.67-, 131.8 CTCSS

Thu Feb 15 - General meeting and program, A conversation with Bob Heil, K9EID; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library, 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 6:45 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation

Thu Apr 26 - General meeting and program, "The Journey to an Antenna Analyzer" by Al Mecozzi, WA8LBZ; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library; 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 6:45 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation

Thu Jun 21 - General meeting and program, "A tour of our Members Ham Shacks" by Tom Foy, N4HAI; Reynoldsburg Branch of the Columbus Public Library; 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 6:45 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation

Thu Aug 23 - General meeting and program, Frequency Calibration using the GPSDO by Mike Mickelson, KD8DZ; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library; 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 6:45 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation

Thu Oct 18 - General meeting and program, Identifying Digital Signals by Al Mecozzi, WA8LBZ; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library; 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 6:45 PM: short meeting, followed by presentation

Thu Dec 13 - General meeting and talk by Seamus, KE8GTT; New Albany Branch of the Columbus Public Library; 6:00 PM: gather to eat and socialize (brown bag your own food); 6:45 PM: short meeting (including the election of next years officers), followed by the presentation

(The Members and Friends Pictorial Directory has been moved to the Members-Only area of the website.)

Clubmember Communications

Ham Radio is all about communications. Our primary means of keeping in
contact with one another within the Club is our W8ZPF Repeater,
146.07/146.67 Mhz (with 131.8 Hz CTCSS). The repeater is located at
I-270 and Broad St (SR 16) on the east side of Columbus with a remote
receiver site in northwest Fairfield County.
W8ZPF/R provides good coverage throughout most of Franklin, and much of
Fairfield and Licking, Counties. If you have a rig that cannot send subaudible
tones, you can override the repeater's CTCSS decoder temporarily by
touch-toning 219. Feel free
to give a call on W8ZPF/R at any time.

The CRES-ARC also maintains two internet email lists -- a discussion group
and an email announcement list. What's the difference? The announcement list
is a low volume list intended to announce our meetings and activities as
well as get the word out about other items of interest to all club members.
The discussion group is a potentially higher volume
Yahoo Groups
forum that can either be viewed online or followed through emails. On the
discussion group the topics are more dynamic, going where ever its members
choose to take them.

The announcement list is maintained by the Treasurer.
Drop us an email
if you desire to have your email address added, removed, or changed,
or if you have a question.

If you are a club member and would like to join the CRES_ARC discussion group on
Yahoo, just enter your email address below and click "GO" to get started:

Finally, as a courtesy, for those club members who would like to provide
contact information for other members of the CRES-ARC, we publish a
members-only web page. If you are a member in good
standing, you may request the access credentials from a club officer. Please
email the Internet Manager
if you would like to make your email address, phone number, or mugshot,
available to other club members on the members-only part of the website.